Animated Worlds

Year
2012

Runtime
95 mins

Subtitles
Various languages with English subtitles

ANIMATED WORLDS

Hand-drawn Latvian animation, award-winning argentinian stop-motion, paper cutouts from Japan and last year's Oscar winner for best animated short are just a few of the offerings on display in this decidedly global collection of animated films.

LIFE AND STUFF (dir. Kumar Satkunarasa, UK, 2011)

A lifetime's worth of experience is distilled into five potent minutes in this funny, philosophical animated short by a British university student.

LUMINARIS (dir. Juan Pablo Zaramella, Argentina, 2011)

An employee in a lightbulb factory works on a complicated scheme in this imaginative argentinian stop-motion short.

CALDERA (dir. Evan Viera, USA, 2011)

In this beautiful, melancholic CGI animation, a girl decides to quit taking her depression medication and see the world on her own terms.

GRANDMOTHERS (dir. Afarin Eghbal, Argentina/UK, 2011)

A politically charged stop-motion animation highlighting the tragic consequences of Argentina's military occupation in the late 1970s.